Talitha Kennedy consistently works with black leather for its tactile corporeality and macabre context to embody the fraught intimacy with the natural world. Her hand stitched soft sculptures simultaneously lifeless and budding with new growth personify natural forces in a constructed world. Stitching is translated into drawing in Talitha’s work on paper where intuitive ink markings follow the wrinkles and slopes of crumpled paper to conjure things in flux such as decay, cobwebs or fleeting shadows.

Talitha has shown installations, sculptures and drawings widely throughout Australia with solo shows including Artisan Brisbane, Stockroom Kyneton, Chapman & Bailey Melbourne, MARS Melbourne, Umbrella Townsville and NCCA Darwin. She has been in numerous curated group shows across Australia including Legacy: Reflections on Mabo which toured nationally through Visions Australia, Fecund: Fertile Worlds an Artback NT Touring Exhibition and recently Symbiotic Ecologies at Delmar Gallery, Sydney.

Photography by Darren Tanny Tan

Talitha is cbOne Gallery Manager and assists our Front of House.